But that doesn’t mean TV stars are taking out a second mortgage on their mansions — not by a long shot.

A new “Who Earns What” list compiled by TV Guide Magazine contains a few surprises, and also some predictable info.

(The data was compiled “from conversations with agents, network executives and studio heads,” according to TV Guide Magazine.)

For instance, Ashton Kutcher is now TV’s highest-paid series star, pulling in $700,000 each week for “Two and a Half Men.” That’s an impressive $15.4 million per season, but it’s mere peanuts compared to the $1.25 million per episode — or $27.5 million a season — that Kutcher’s predecessor, Charlie Sheen, was raking in.

And that’s in a genre, the sitcom, which once counted Jerry Seinfeld, Tim Allen, Kelsey Grammer and the “Friends” cast among its $1 million-per-episode club — with “Everybody Loves Raymond” star Ray Romano earning $2 million each week in his show’s final season.

So what’s with the (relative) belt-tightening?

“There aren’t the same dominant players, and the successful shows aren’t as successful,” says Katz TV Group VP Bill Carroll.

“It’s a competitive landscape and it changes what the networks are willing to pay.”

“Judge Judy” Sheindlin, who’s anchored TV’s top-rated court show for a decade, earns a whopping $45 million each year, no surprise there — but Joe Brown (“Judge Joe Brown”) pulling in $20 million a year?